Contents

Preface

Mine alone

So far, for now

About grandparents

Finding home

North River

On writing memoir

The outsiders

Albert Black

Pure Duras

Quardling around Glover

Some other girl: the case for Jean Batten

Flying places

The body’s sweet ache

On being massaged

Playing with fire

In the time of Covid

Going south

At Pike River

99 Albany Street

This new condition

Truffles

The blue room

On widowhood

Acknowledgements

Sources

About the Author

Also by Fiona Kidman

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